the death toll from the algerian hostage crisis has reportedly risen to forty eight captives now said to have been killed the terrorists claim the attack was in retaliation for french intervention in mali. friends and supporters commemorate internet freedom activist aaron swartz that his family maintains the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by overzealous prosecutors and a possible thirty year jail sentence of. pakistan agrees to dissolve parliament in a deal to end an unprecedented anti-government sit in protest in the capital or to talk to the man leading the demonstration.

watching artie's with unusual view with me. in the aftermath of the algerian gas facility hostage crisis the military has reportedly captured five islamic terrorists alive security officials now say up to forty eight hostages have been killed in the siege those behind the attack came it was triggered by the french intervention in mali however many analysts believe france is only geopolitical ambitions are what pushed it to intervene to reports now. we don't always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world. he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out

the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but potatoes set to exceed two hundred thousand the stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out to slimmest insurgents before the francoise alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government soon you see as and for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. these fronts. many people say a huge cost is a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other and neighboring parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power power relies on a steady flow of pure raney and so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the french government depends on a steady flow of the precious natural resource but molly says micio land is not

about power or money. and security this has nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business. some have their suspicions nationally supported approach energy company. is to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year because to extract in this uranium is going to be very cheap as a third world very cheap. france is playing a very very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reporter described a deadly hostage crisis in algeria light bulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens to pull out almost nobody i'm for intervention if it is to

fight terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons not of it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold it already renders the ground it is not . they don't think about democracy. they have made paris a huge target and france a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of untapped natural resources needed to keep france eliminated political analysts say that foreign lands promised to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon playboy can see paris. international relations professor mark almond says it's the fallout from the intervention in libya that originally led to the crisis in mali. it extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain

and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting kind of an element of this problem is a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have are not really look through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite contrary spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention actually tend to send ripples of disorder further around the region the surprising thing is that some fairly basic security measures which are just really numbers of guards would not apply to that bay are the same places here on all sides what seems to. me is that the insofar as the mali events were the spark for this nobody seems to think that perhaps for the most groups to come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this

problem because all the a lot of weapons that's been produced by the collapse of that are but also a complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially all those operating in different parts of libya. of iraq obama has now officially started his second term at the white house and we get expert opinion what to expect from the american president of the next four years whether the late government promises. hundreds of people have gathered in new york to pay their respects to aaron swartz an internet freedom activist who committed suicide last week the twenty six year old computer prodigy's death came before his trial for allegedly hacking into mit online publication archives with this week a federal prosecutors dropped the charges against him but his family and friends say the legal pressures drove the activists to take his own life and the situation reports. the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain

from a paid subscription database and the belief that they should be free. to essentially rocking out too many books in the library the punishment facing thirty years behind bars and a million dollar fine you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to download a p.d.f. to a hard drive. no person was harmed. there was no financial benefit murder received punishment the result twenty six year old web wizard aaron swartz takes his own life the idea that he was facing decades in jail is is just disgusting absolutely appalling and and now we've lost a tremendously valuable and talented human being while the plea bargain deal for only several months behind bars was reportedly a possible outcome the internet freedom crusader refused to be seen as a felon his family and supporters blame the prosecution's aggressive attempts to

put swartz behind bars for his suicide this man a young man and his family were literally terrorized by the prosecutors and the judicial discretion that let this case go forward and not stop while authorities dubbed him a criminal supporter say he was a robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation and online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blog sites automatically instead of having to check each website individually the program is now part of the common vocabulary of the internet and is used on a daily basis for publishing news stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against policy and he knew it but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz. case has made an example of how seriously the internet is regulated in the us the laws under which he was

indicted did back to one thousand nine hundred eighty four many believe they're long outdated the prison sentences need to be relaxed especially for supposed crimes like this where there was no economic motive where there was no way for him to profit even if. even if he did all the things that he did so they said new legislation dubbed aarons law has been proposed in the u.s. congress it's still unclear whether there will be any real change but what is clear is that it once again took a tragedy to galvanize national debate and party new york pakistan's government has struck a deal with brown character. to end a massive street protest in the country's capital the unprecedented sit in involving tens of thousands targeted the current leadership for widespread corruption and economic mismanagement as part of the deal isn't a bad it has agreed to dissolve parliament and said you new elections. take place

within ninety days but the parliament term was in any case due to expire in march government also agreed to talks on electoral reforms that injected the cleric's demand for the army to help set up an interim administration the son of a deeply political crisis the government standoff in the supreme court the court's order to arrest the prime minister over corruption allegations was dismissed assault on journalists and a former pakistan air force officer says a change of power could be looming. people are likening it to the square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around home people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama the whole cadre but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some said that because of his canadian nationality and because of his long stay in the west he may have been one motivated as well as funded by the west there is another theory that he may be

a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people who had the feeling that they were downtrodden they were neglected and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the peril of situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure that it matters if history has to change of this country. and his supporters driven by anger over corruption in the flawed electoral system called for their protests to bring to a resolution right in this square protests in egypt speaking exclusively to r.t. the protest leader himself to listen exactly what he means watch the interview in full on our website r.t. dot com. when i see evolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in

tunis in libya and all these countries. lead to the dictatorship for years and years for a long time. in the people stood up against that in iran there was even a rule of shan shah that people stood up against that pakistan is big different. there is no one else here lou neither monadic nor military dictatorship here is electoral authority and the twenty billion is electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social field nor in economic field not democracy so this is a lot less and less total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim world having nuclear capability and if the same situation continues that would be

a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so our this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the whole third world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. well meanwhile israel is heading into the last day before its parliamentary elections. on tuesday as promised you know struggles not just against the opposition but also. we have more on that after the break. what mistry is hidden deep beneath. visitors welcome here. traps laid for intruders. and the

supernatural cannot rise from nowhere. human be possessed by the spirit. mistress of the cave on auntie. barack obama is now officially beginning his second presidential term having now taken the oath of office at the white house on monday is expected to spurt out the prospects for the next four years and that's deliver on some promise this is so far failed to keep james lovelock who was the former head of america's libertarian

party believes hope for change is futile. i'm not sure that we should give president obama credit for the united states. i think we would have seen the united states coming out of our economic system where he should regard what president obama. firms it was efforts of stimulus and. in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slow down the americans with respect to the foreign policy there are a few hopeful signs of the nomination haykel by but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be whether to have a program of using drones the power has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the fears americans are not sick or sanguine about the

prospects or seeing us move forward toward the united states being a country which basically respects international and also desires we respect the liberties of our own people. israel will act a new apartment on tuesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu predicted to come out on top but many israelis don't think his policies are radical enough the one time netanyahu supporter reaping the rewards. reports now on why the israeli leader even has to fight against his former allies. he's the surprise success story of israel's election campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so we could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with

a left wing person driving the bus as far as being i mean who you know and i think that even though i am opposed to a state. i would say most members of the likud obviously i mean that is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a writer leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know will never happen the sopranos will never return for another season. grow an afro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have put in its jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say netanyahu while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric. in the most clear of terms the

western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands we could list has grown even more right wing with ready cars like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be taken apart it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews internal capital in general. but what would be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in

a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self rule in the wrist and while that might not seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact natanya who is acutely aware of the r.t. television. and that will be keeping a close eye on events as election unfolds with in-depth up to the minute coverage how will the tension with iran develop. isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his election on

january twenty second. israel decides. beijing has criticised washington for its latest comments on china's territorial brawl with japan in the south china sea so the u.s. should be more careful with its words and stay away from the region's matters when it comes after statements made by u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton was sure that tokyo american supports warning china against any unilateral action in the dispute with beijing and tokyo they play into a string of on how darren's are said to be rich in natural resources george coup the founder of international strategic alliances because the us is in the conflict between the two asian powers. i thought the us created this mess and i think the u.s. is continuing to prove. the problem between between japan and china u.s. is again playing the strategic ambiguity game by on the one hand saying

we're neutral about this and we're not taking sides between china and japan but on the other hand they're saying we recognize that japan has a mystery of control and therefore we would be opposed to any. action but how did your pain get the control the us. from the beginning to the year the u.s. was really responsible for this. mess. well there's always a more for you on our website r.t. dot com including seek and find out one lucky australian gold hunter is relentless efforts finally paid off with a nugget worth at least three hundred pounds and all that's. us politicians have long been looking for a solution to global poverty sesame study claims it would take any one hundred people to solve the problem well boy you can find out how by going to alter dot com

. our. syria's foreign minister has invited the opposition to lay down arms to start a national dialogue but added that president assad's removal is out of the question further violence this week saw a bloodbath on two massive loss in the northern city of aleppo on tuesday i'm one hundred eighty people i should say mostly students were killed one hundred injured after explosions devastate the city's university. and more in the country it has been dragging on for almost two years now this quest for government rebels who cannot reconcile their differences pointing the political analyst on specific

syrian opposition these are not people of one thing and united front. you know. some elements are. leaving. in syria pre-election stream press and then you probably. are not the strongest political. party in syria which is the most brotherhood i'm very lucky stars. they do have a lot on the need for me to go for missions you also have much time to. rebel forces in syria like being free syrian army. and then you have to be a new structure on the high these and these limits fighters that are closer to one kind. that would ensure the secular bylines for their members of your position so really we speed the fault lines the political party lines it will be

a position length but there will be recounts miles of d.c. the only thing that having come now is that they want to remove the government in damascus. now for more news making headlines around the world. a courthouse has been set on fire in the egyptian city of alexandria following day long clashes between police and protesters demonstrators were demanding justice in the trial of former security officers accused of killings during the twenty seven uprising violence first erupted when the presiding judge abruptly resigned today out carrying out his duties. security forces have been torturing nearly a third of all detainees transferred to their control by u.s. forces according to the u.n. report claims kabul is operating secret sites for the abuse of prisoners to avoid international scrutiny when ahead of a full military withdrawal the allegations could hinder plans for the full handover of security responsibilities to afghan forces by twenty forty.

extremely low temperatures and a heavy snow has continued to blanket europe with weather related deaths now confirmed in spain france and portugal snow and ice caused a fatality on roads i once was worst six dead thousands have been left stranded after flights were canceled across the continent and cost the same hospital decisions on the way. catching a train took a bizarre twist in rule russia this week after months of falling out of a moving carriage barely dressed for conditions in the freezing siberian forest with barton told us how the man managed to make it out of the woods alive. if we picture the scene we've got forty two year old valarie malkoff a lorry driver in this train clickety clack ing its way through the forests in the a more region in russia's far east at night they decide to go for a cigarette but nothing special so he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarette and then as he stays went to open the door to go back

to his carriage except it was the wrong door and he falls out the back of the train so he rapidly realizes that he is not just running to catch up with the train but for his very life we managed to talk to him earlier he was a little bit embarrassed about the whole thing when i fell out i only had parents slippers and t. shirt i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse minute happened i just saw the train was gone so i came quickly to my senses and started running so that i didn't freeze i ran on the railway track for about twenty or thirty minutes when i go to the nearest station their eyes popped out after they saw a man with almost no clothes on women there quickly gave me tea and reported what just happened i didn't tell this to anybody my wife found out about the incident only after a journalist called her i would imagine that the phone call he had with his wife after she had found help not from him but from journalists was possibly

a little bit strange luckily he's ok no injuries no hypothermia he's back at work there will be an investigation into perhaps the whether the train guard had forgotten to lock the back door of the train which as we can see was poorly quite a big oversight if it turns out that that was what happened it's also possibly one factor that made him run a bit faster was that we've recently reported on in the far east in siberia there's been quite a lot of problems with packs of ravenous wolves being there so i imagine hey if he had that in mind if you knew about that possibly something to spur him on a bit faster. store the story well that's it tough for me carrie johnson my colleague were just here i will be back with news about thirty minutes time so dot . com.

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